Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 70
"Wax tapers, indeed!" said the lamp, "I have never yet had these, nor is it likely I ever shall.
Who acts: Wax tapers · What happens: say, not have, be · To what, where: lamp, these, taper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wax tapers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tapers | punct |
| 2 | Wax | wax | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tapers | amod |
| 3 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tapers | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 tapers | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tapers | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tapers | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lamp | det |
| 10 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 is | cc |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 is | expl |
| 23 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 26 shall | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 shall | nsubj |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 shall | advmod |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 is | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wax tapers | the lamp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present · perfect | Wax tapers = taper | these | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | taper | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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